About Me

I am a writer, teacher, and artist. I have walked the difficult grief journey successfully, although I wept buckets of tears. I felt ignored by God, and often thought there was no point in going on.

Now I am content, happy, and self-confident in continuing with my life and finding new worlds to explore. My aim is to help ease the painful journey for other widows by showing what I did wrong and what I learned along the way. My stories contain humor as well as tears.

I discovered God was with me the whole time when I finally quit crying and listened. My prayer is to help you in some way as you travel that terrible grief road. There truly is a light at the end.

Contact me by leaving a comment on any of my blogs. Ask me a question, or tell me your story. I will pray before every answer and share what I have learned. I don’t have all the answers by any means, but I’ve traveled a long way down that bumpy, tough journey.

If you have any widow friends, share this blog site with them and we’ll all try to aid each other.

Donna, how nice to hear from you! Vivian and I are cohart writers! Are you “one of us too?” Sounds spooky, doesn’t it? I’d love to meet you some time. Come out to our Texas Mt. Trail Writers conference in April.

I work at a retirement center in Midland so I know lots of 80 – 90 year old widows. My husband died suddenly when I was 57. Within a month of his death, a friend talked me into attending a grief support group.It was very helpful. I can relate to your statement, “Now I am content, happy, and self-confident in continuing with my life and finding new worlds to explore.”

What great food for thought! Hummmm, that could apply to standing in the receiving line at the funeral home, sticking as long as you can in church without crying, or maybe, talking to his mother when she thinks you didn’t feed him healthily enough.! Lots of possibilities. I’m going to really think about this. Thanks, Donna.